It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 578: The technician's technique is very good, Feng's comic eating looks, Lu Tailang is completely obsessed!

Familiar hotel, familiar massage room, familiar friends, new technicians...

Every time he comes to India, Chen Fei will get together with Rajkumar Hirani, the director of "Three Idiots in Bollywood".

His idea was actually very simple. He just wanted to chat with this talented Indian director, not to experience the services of those skilled female technicians.

"Fei, how are you? The skills of these new technicians are pretty good, right?"

Rajkumar Hirani understands Chen Fei's taste very well. Every time he looks for technicians who are in line with Asian aesthetics, and he carefully selects them.

Men actually only have a few hobbies. As long as you like them, you can naturally make them happy.

For example, now, after making Chen Fei happy, he directly got a script that is very suitable for the Indian background.

"Wrestle!" dad"

While Chen Fei was enjoying a massage by a technician, Rajkumar Hirani briefly read the script and gained some basic understanding of the story inside.

The story tells the story of the male protagonist Mahavira Singh Perga who was forced to give up his dream of wrestling when he was young due to life constraints, but unexpectedly discovered that his daughters Geeta and Babita had wrestling talents. He bravely broke the traditional prejudices of Indian society and Under pressure from all sides, he let his two daughters learn wrestling and trained them to become world champions.

At the end, Rajkumar Hirani suddenly felt that this story had an inexplicable familiarity.

He subconsciously raised his head and was about to ask Chen Fei when a voice suddenly sounded in his ears:

"This is a biographical script based on the Indian wrestler Mahavira Singh Perga..."

Mahavir had won the Indian national championship when he was young, but failed to achieve his dream of becoming a world champion.

Later, he trained four daughters and two nieces to become well-known Indian wrestlers, and was also hailed as the "Father of Indian Women's Wrestling."

His eldest daughter Geeta won the 2010kg women's wrestling championship at the Commonwealth Games in 55. She is the first female athlete to win a wrestling championship in the history of Indian sports, and is also the first female athlete to qualify for the Summer Olympics. hand.

Although scripts are rewarded by the system, biographical scripts usually come with a specific introduction.

Chen Fei didn't know much about Mahavira. If the system hadn't helped introduce him, he might have made a big joke.

Rajkumar Hirani thought quickly. After hearing Chen Fei's answer, he immediately said: "I will personally invite Mahavira to serve as a consultant for this film."

"Yes, yes." Chen Fei agreed very much with his proposal: "For subsequent preparations and casting, you can just contact the company, and I won't have to worry about it. When the film is finished, you can just call me."

"Ok!"

Rajkumar Hirani responded, put away the script very sensibly, said goodbye and left Chen Fei's room.

As for the four female technicians, they will massage until very late tonight, after all, the clock has been added in advance.

……

Chen Fei did not stay in India for long.

In addition to promoting the movie this time, his other purpose is to present "Dangal!" The script of "Daddy" was personally handed over to Rajkumar Hirani.

It is a pity that Deepika Padukone was not in India during this time, but went to the UK.

However, the four female technicians were quite good, which made up for the regret.

On the plane back to Los Angeles, Chen Fei saw the weekly box office results of "1942".

1.83 million yuan.

How high a movie's potential is can actually be seen from the box office data in the first three days.

This time can only last up to one week!
And now, the weekly box office of "1942" is obviously not good, and the box office trend continues to drop, and it is about to fall below 10 million.

"In one week, you only got 1.83 million?"

In Huayi's large conference room, Wang Zhongjun had a gloomy face at the moment, his eyes sweeping over Feng Xiaogang, Wang Zhonglei and others, as if he wanted to choose someone to devour!

An investment of more than 2 million yuan, and only such a small box office return is simply too miserable!

In his previous expectation, if the film had such a good reputation, even if it could not exceed 10 billion, it would not be a problem to exceed 7 million, right?
But looking at it now, if the total box office can exceed 4 million, it is already considered very impressive.

Although he won't lose enough to sell his pants, he will definitely become the object of ridicule in the circle.

Thinking about this, coupled with the plummeting box office and stock price caused by the box office failure, Wang Zhongjun felt annoyed for no reason.

Glancing at his incompetent brother who spent all day in the club, he felt inexplicably that he hated iron.

When the movie first started shooting, it was so exciting that no one was convinced!

But now, it has failed at the box office, and the whole person has shrunk like a quail, which is simply annoying to watch.

However, this was his own brother, so he couldn't say too harsh words.

So, he turned his attention to Feng Xiaogang and said in a deep voice: "Director Feng, we spent a total of 2.1 million for your "". Now you have the name you want, but... …”

As one of the shareholders of Huayi, Feng Xiaogang naturally understands the meaning of this sentence.

He opened the bag, took out a script and put it on the table: "This is my next play, a commercial film with a comedy theme."

Hearing the sound, Wang Zhonglei's eyes suddenly lit up and he hurriedly looked up.

"Private Customization"

Not to mention anything else, just by looking at the name, everyone in the conference room showed joy on their faces.

Personal order?

Isn't this an obvious announcement that our film will be "inviting investment" to the public?

It’s so right, this is Feng Xiaogang’s “Feng’s New Year’s Comedy”, it will definitely make a lot of money!

……

In the blink of an eye, it’s late December.

Following the latest weekly box office results of "1942", "Big Shanghai" and "Life of Pi" were also officially released in mainland theaters on the same day.

Netizens flocked to the theater one after another, ready to taste the "flavor" of these two movies.

But what no one expected was that in the afternoon of that day, many positive reviews about "The King's Feast" suddenly appeared on the Internet. It was overwhelming!
Especially on major film review websites, if you look around, many one-star negative reviews have been completely suppressed by five-star positive reviews.

In just a few hours, "The King's Feast" has become a "high-quality" blockbuster with a Douban score of 9.1.

When the time came in the evening, the media, which acted quickly, directly issued an announcement:

"Director Lu Chuan is suspected of hiring a navy to forcefully praise "The King's Feast" in order to improve the film's reputation and coax the audience into attending the movie..."

As soon as this report appeared, it immediately appeared on the Weibo hot search list!
No one is stupid. The movie is already so bad, yet there are still so many people giving it five-star reviews. This is obviously a fake.

There was a lot of ridicule on the Internet.

"It's so shameless to go all out and get good reviews. Why, do you think the good reviews mean the quality of the movie is good?"

"Have you ever thought about clubbing? What's the point of doing this now?"

"Mad! Are you so rich? Can you refund my movie ticket?"

However, just when netizens thought that Lu Chuan would definitely choose not to admit it, something very strange happened!

This idiot actually posted a Weibo post at 8pm sharp, admitting his behavior of brushing up positive reviews: "Yes, you guessed it right, we did hire a navy team."

After this Weibo post appeared, netizens who were eating melons were stunned, and even those who were angrily criticizing him were shocked!
As a director, he actually proactively admitted that he bought a fake movie and got good reviews. What kind of shameless maneuver is this?

"Good guy, this may be the first person in the history of the domestic film industry to publicly admit to using trolls to brush off reviews, right?"

Chen Fei was also eating melon at this moment, and was still on the phone with Jiang Wen.

"Hahahaha! You don't know that when this guy posted that Weibo, I was having dinner with the two bosses of Yinghuang and Xingmei. If I hadn't pulled him, Mr. Jia would have been ready to chop someone with a knife! "

"Hahaha!" Chen Fei was so happy that he almost lost his breath: "Just wait and see, this guy must have some tricks up his sleeve." As expected, Lu Chuan accepted an interview with the media the next morning.

In front of the camera, he burst into tears: "You have no idea how much pressure I have endured in the past twenty days. During this period, "The King's Feast" has received a lot of slander, negative comments, and abuse, with an average of thousands of comments per hour. Negative comments! No matter the reason, it’s just bad!

Why was it such a box office failure? It’s because of these bad reviews!
They have hindered too many movie fans who should have walked into the theater and chosen to buy movie tickets for "A Feast for the King". This is absolutely unacceptable to me.

As a last resort, I can only choose to hire a navy army to make a targeted counterattack against those black materials..."

At the end, he even said a wise saying: "Am I the only one who dies? The black fans will not scold me?"

Media interviews were just one of them. Later, he followed Feng Xiaogang's example and began to write short essays on Weibo, accusing other competitors and black fans.

"The Ghost Blowing the Lantern: The Ancient City" naturally became his target.

According to what he means, the latter deliberately spent a lot of money to hire anti-fans to smear his movie in order to grab the box office.

However, this statement is obviously untenable.

Not only did his grievances not make netizens and passers-by fans feel good about him, but he also attracted more abuse and ridicule because he deliberately targeted "Ghost Blowing the Lamp"!
"What the hell? I've seen someone beat him up, but I've never seen someone so shameless."

"Who stepped on the horse and deliberately acted sarcastically? You didn't even look at your own videos. It's simply disgusting!"

"Okay, you can go and die. I won't scold you when you die. I will dig your grave then."

"The writing of this short essay is simply not good at all."

"Pfft... What are you doing so early? You've just started to buy movies now. Why don't you start buying movies and boosting the box office on the first day of the show?"

There was one wave of ridicule and insults on the Internet. Even if Lu Chuan closed the comments on Weibo, there were still many people who deliberately posted posts to scold him and also deliberately @him to come and see.

What’s even more fatal is that the two major producers of the film, Fang Yinghuang and Xingmei, quickly responded:

"The purchase of trolls is all Lu Chuan's personal behavior and has nothing to do with the film's producer, distributor, or producer. Please make a careful distinction among netizens."

This move is a direct kill!

Lu Chuan was probably confused and didn't post any more essays for a whole day.

At this time, he finally realized that the plan of betrayal would not work at all, because he was already completely stinky in the eyes of netizens.

No matter how badly a piece of shit sells, it can't change the fact that it is shit.

……

An interesting thing happened again. Because of Lu Chuan's coquettish operation, while burning himself, he actually contributed another wave of popularity to "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".

Taking advantage of this opportunity, several distributors announced at the same time that "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" has officially begun showing in the three Nordic countries and Russia.

Different from the previous "Gravity", because of its large number of actors and its inclusion of a series of Chinese elements, this film naturally became the first Chinese-language film to be screened in multiple overseas countries. Movies that sell.

With the official release in various countries, cultural export directly swept through Asia and some countries in Europe.

This kind of grand scene has been seen in Chinese films before, but it was almost achieved by Uncle Long's punches and kicks.

Now, "Gravity" promotes China's space technology strength, and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" promotes China's cultural connotation. This is the real "cultural propaganda (invasion)."

Never underestimate this kind of cultural communication.

Maybe a movie is not very powerful, but once the number increases, it is a very terrifying "weapon"!
Now "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" has been released in China for 22 days, and the box office has reached 9.2 million, and it is just around the corner to break 10 billion.

At the same time, in North America, "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" received a box office of 1500 million US dollars in the first three days after its first day of 5400 million US dollars.

After 22 days of release, the North American box office has exceeded 1.75 million US dollars.

Based on current performance estimates, the final target may be around US$2.5 million.

If this result is compared with all the movies directed by Chen Fei in the past, it is obviously ranked last.

But don’t forget, its director is Ning Hao, the starring team is all Chinese, and the story is also set in China.

A Chinese-language film was able to achieve such results in the North American theater market. Several producers and executives were so happy that they almost couldn't keep their mouths shut.

Of course, it is still incomparable to hard science fiction like "Interstellar".

The latter's box office in North America has now exceeded 4 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars very smoothly. It is obviously heading for "Avengers".

The new round of global publicity activities has ended. Chen Fei has temporarily withdrawn his attention from "Interstellar" and fixed his focus on "Dallas Buyers Club".

North American premiere, promotion, preparation for awards...

He has been extremely busy these days!
Of course, while he was busy, he did not forget to pay attention to Li Bian's "Life of Pi".

The mainland box office on the first day was 1129 million yuan, and the first three-day weekend was 6801 million yuan.

As an imported film, the box office trend of "Pi" is not weak, and it is obviously aiming for 5 million.

It's a pity that the box office of this movie in North America is much lower.

The box office on the first day was US$364 million, and the first three-day weekend revenue was only US$1697 million.

Twentieth Century Fox obviously made a wrong move in this game. "Life of Pi" is simply not suitable to compete in the annual box office competition in North America.

"Interstellar" and "The Hobbit" are really great, but Li Bian is far behind in the field of commercial films.

Chen Fei has not forgotten the movie "Big Shanghai" directed by Wang Jing and invested by companies such as Bona and China Star.

The box office on the first day was 505 million, and the three-day total of the first weekend was 2309 million. The film received mixed reviews.

The plot design of the actors' acting skills, brotherhood, and the emotional dispute between Cheng Daqi and the two heroines is pretty good, but the plot is a bit cliche.

Wang Jing's films usually have a style, that is, there are references to other films everywhere.

If there were no "Pi", with its top cast such as Chow Yun-fat, Hong Jingbao and Huang Xiaoming, it might have attracted a lot of attention.

Unfortunately, in the face of reality, the word "if" is too fragile.

If "Big Shanghai" was unlucky accidentally, then "The King's Feast" was unlucky for eight lifetimes!
As more and more movies are released during the Lunar New Year period, theaters naturally have to increase the scheduling rate and quantity of high-quality movies.

So good, because the film schedule is fixed, so if you want high-quality movies to get better and better at the box office, you naturally have to adjust the film schedule from poor movies.

Naturally, films such as "The King's Feast", "1942" and "Big Shanghai" were "forced" to pay.

Among them, "The King's Feast" was the most unlucky. The film schedule was completely cut off. If you want to watch this movie, you basically have to go to the midnight screening.

When the new box office dropped to 89 that day, Lu Chuan, who had been quiet for a few days, finally couldn't bear it anymore.

A short essay went directly to the top of Weibo’s hot searches!

"Dear netizens and fans, the situation is now very clear. I have said before that the main reason why "The King's Feast" suffered a disastrous failure was due to attacks from multiple trolls and conflicts of interest.

But now, they no longer carry people on their backs!

Cinema chains, led by companies such as Pan Asia and Wanda, unabashedly cut the film schedule belonging to "The King's Feast" and distributed the profits to other films.

Isn't this unfair? Why do you bully me like this! I now have reason to suspect that those who hired trolls to smear me are the film producers who have conflicts of interest with "The King's Feast"! "

As soon as this little essay appeared, it directly triggered a strong response from netizens.

"It's just a bad movie. Shouldn't your film schedule be cut off? You're a fool who is occupying the toilet and not taking a shit..."

At the same time, Ye Ning's call came to Chen Fei.

"Mr. Chen, Wanda Cinemas and Pan-Asia Cinemas under your control, including the producers of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", have all been named by that guy Lu Chuan."

"Yes, I know." Chen Fei responded lightly, his words full of disdain and indifference: "The clown looks disgusting, then... ban him."

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